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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

Jon posted:
To be fair as much as I respect you and what you bring to the conversation, I don't think you should be dictating to mods. People are entitled to opinions as long as they're relevant to what the forums about and we're entitled to put them right if they're wrong. So I don't think mods should be deleting accusations of media bias. But I agree with your first paragraph.

Thing is - I do think accusations of bias against any broadcaster (unless there's a provable "smoking gun") get too deep-into-the-weeds. All I'm saying is I know where these conversations go, and it isn't a productive place.
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

EastEngland posted:
derek500 posted:
Sky show Jeremy Corbyn's speech in full screen, full sound. Now it's Theresa May's turn and they split the screen with demo and drown out the sound.

Why have the left been able to take over Sky News?


Fairly simple answer to this one.

Where the Sky Cameras were there were no protests at the time of Jeremy Corbyn's Speech.

I can assure you there is no bias in Sky.

Yup - this!


I'm sick and tired - on a broad level not limited to TVF - of people kvetching about specific instances of what they perceive as media bias simply because it doesn't reflect their own biases at that or any given moment.

It also just isn't true, and can I please urge the mods to delete any posts that may yet go down the road of: "Well, you would say that, wouldn't you?" (... including this one, if necessary!)

It becomes a circular discussion, and I'm sure most of us have better things to do anyway. I certainly do - it's my birthday and I'm headed out for a steak dinner! Laughing
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

globaltraffic24 posted:
Quick question for Skygeek - is the new newsroom and studio visible in some shots from the glass box? There seems to be some frosted screens over the shoulders of guests, like some work is going on.

They're in entirely-different buildings, so no.
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London Tower Block Fire

itsrobert posted:
Skygeek posted:
VMPhil posted:
Probably better off discussing this at Metropol

https://metropol247.co.uk

See... in my opinion, you'd be right if the discussion were purely about the legality or otherwise of the cladding, but really, it's about the journalism, which goes hand-in-hand with the presentation, which I reckon therefore makes it fair game, though the mods are free to disagree if they wish

With respect, as a founding member and former moderator of TV Forum, I can categorically say that the original intention was the discussion of television idents and continuity - not of journalistic content. I completely accept your point that in reality the two go hand in hand, but we've always had a bias towards television branding rather than content. Granted, that may have slipped in recent years, but historically it's been the case.

Que sera sera.
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London Tower Block Fire

VMPhil posted:
Probably better off discussing this at Metropol

https://metropol247.co.uk

See... in my opinion, you'd be right if the discussion were purely about the legality or otherwise of the cladding, but really, it's about the journalism, which goes hand-in-hand with the presentation, which I reckon therefore makes it fair game, though the mods are free to disagree if they wish
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Sky News: Presenters & Rotas

d4ky posted:
news junkie posted:
d4ky posted:
Can anyone in the know update this schedule for me

https://www.skymedia.co.uk/news/sky-news-unveils-new-schedule/

Sophy Ridge does she still do her Saturday slot?

And who now covers her Sunday slot after Ridge on Sunday? from 12-2


Since Sophy Ridge on Sunday launched, she now presents that programme plus Sky News Tonight on Fridays.

I don't believe there is now a fixed presenter for Saturday/Sunday, other than Niall Paterson usually does along with Gillian Joseph 5-8, Anna Jones 8-12.

However, it is common that Tom Macleod, Claudia-Liza Armah, Sam Naz & Rebecca Williams are likely to appear in the slots that were originally Sophy's.


Cheers

Do you know if Amanda Walker was a one off today? As she usually reports in Washington

She'll be filling in on Sky News Tonight for much of this week. Beyond that, I'm not at liberty to say.
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London Tower Block Fire

623058 posted:
Im not indulge in speculation, Im highlighting what been presented. As a pres forum we should at least take note on how the companies deal with stories rightly or wrongly.

Right - but what you're seeming to ignore is that even if corporate and governmental entities attempt to mislead or spin, broadcasters' relaying of that obfuscation is PART of telling the story, rather than an act of deliberate collusion until they/we know any better.
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London Tower Block Fire

Steve Williams posted:
The other point, I think, is that we simply do not know. We can't confirm if what the broadcasters are saying is correct or not, there's going to be a public inquiry into it. The broadcasters are using their skill and judgement as to what to report.

If there is a "puzzle", it's not up to us to solve it, so I don't know why it needs to be brought up here, I find it quite unpleasant to indulge in speculation in this forum.

We can't even find out who owns the TVS archive, so what use are we going to be?

Yup - what Steve said.
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London Tower Block Fire

Let me try and simplify this. The job of broadcasters - particularly is a situation like this - is two-fold:

a) To relay the clearest and most-accurate set of facts as we understand them.

b) To relay what people in positions of power and accountability have said, even if what they've said turns out to be erroneous or a downright lie.

Those two concepts aren't mutually exclusive - in fact, they inherently compliment each other in terms of how one assembles high-quality journalism, because understanding when somebody potentially did their job wrongly lends itself to appreciating the overall context of a story even more.
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Sky News: Presenters & Rotas

And yes, we got there in the end, as seen on-screen right now.... Amanda Walker is going to be doing a bit of London-based presenting for a while.
Ratflump and London Lite gave kudos
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London Tower Block Fire

Markymark posted:
Skygeek posted:
.... and covered the U.S. ban on the paper review.....


Trump has banned Sky's paper review ? What will the man do next I wonder ?

He'll have me sacked for running items that merely suggest he could be impeached.


Quite seriously, though, the idiots shaking their fists outside NBH were more interested in getting off on the sound of their own voices than they were on representing the voices of the victims - if anything, they dealt the only blow to what is otherwise an entirely-virtuous cause, entirely at the expense of the poor souls affected.

I can categorically tell you that no D-notice was ever issued barring reporting on the fire safety aspect of this story. Any suggestion to the contrary is quite simply - to borrow a Trumpian phrase (but apply it correctly) - fake news. It quite simply never happened, and the record proves that even if it had, the major broadcasters quite rightly proceeded with their reporting on the matter.
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London Tower Block Fire

623058 posted:
It seems BBC has opened a can of worms, over this Cladding, Philip Hammond has said he thought it was banned, - just now on Andrew marr, but Official department has said above said it shouldn't be used on Tower blocks., yet Sky news never said anything about that, or did there?

To my knowledge, we've done at least three VTs on cladding, and covered the U.S. ban on the paper review (which I produced) on Friday night.
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